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Unidentified governments are surveilling smartphone users via their apps' push notifications, a U.S. senator warned on Wednesday.

In a letter to the Department of Justice, Senator Ron Wyden said foreign officials were demanding the data from Alphabet's Google and Apple. Although details were sparse, the letter lays out yet another path by which governments can track smartphones.

Fast fashion giant Zara pulled ads for its new fashion collection from some parts of its website and app, after its social media posts were flooded with backlash and calls for boycotts claiming the advertisements mocked the destruction wrought by the Israel-Hamas war—though the company says the campaign was created months earlier.

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Antisemitic, anti-Arab, anti-Muslim, anti-Palestinian, and Islamophobia rhetoric has spiked across the nation. Heightened security measures are being taken at local places of worship and businesses.

Organizations representing both Jewish and Palestinian community members are calling for vigilance and for the hate to stop.

Amid ongoing bombardment in the Gaza Strip, UN agencies and humanitarian partners continue to provide desperately needed food, water, healthcare and other services to the more than two million people living there.

“We risk reducing natural ecosystems to one metric.

TLDR: Planting one species of tree instead of an ecosystem of multiple species of native trees is not a good idea.

She has faced mounting calls to resign since giving controversial Congressional testimony.

Many young Nepalis had gone to Russia on student visas, but then joined the Russian Army, lured by the promise of a handsome salary and eventual Russian citizenship.

Reports say that recentlyan unnamed Nepali prisoner of war in Ukrainian military captivity has sent a tearful video to his family asking them to bring him home. In the video he has said there are “other” Nepali prisoners also in Ukraine.

On Tuesday, Nepal Police took 10 foreign employment recruiters into custody for allegedly sending Nepalis to Russia on visitor visas for recruitment into the Russian military. Reports said the agencies had sent at least 200 Nepalis to Russia promising huge salaries and Russian citizenship.

Videos of actors like Elijah Wood posted on Cameo have been used to spread falsehoods about Ukraine.

"Ethan Crumbley will be sentenced in a hearing Friday for killing four students and wounding seven others when he opened fire at Oxford High School in Michigan in November 2021. Live news updates."

Open Letter from Professionals at Jewish Organizations
to President Biden and Congress

We are individuals who work for a wide array of Jewish organizations across the United States, coming together across the broad range of beliefs, practices, backgrounds and identities that make up the rich fabric of the American Jewish community. We are uniting together in this moment to call for a ceasefire, the release of all hostages, and a commitment towards a long-term political solution that ensures the freedom and collective safety of Israelis and Palestinians.

(...)

We know there is no military solution to this crisis. We know that Israelis and Palestinians are here to stay — neither Jewish safety nor Palestinian liberation can be achieved if they are pitted against one another. We know that freedom for one people cannot be reached through the oppression and killing of another. We know that Israeli and Palestinian safety is deeply intertwined and that no one wins a forever war. The only way to lasting peace and security is through diplomatic means that move us towards an equal and just future for all.

We urge President Biden and Congress to work for a ceasefire, the release of the hostages, and a diplomatic solution that guarantees equality, justice, and a thriving future for all.

Signed,

An AP story claimed The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints tried to cover up a 2015 abuse case of a child by her father. The church strongly denied the allegation.

Federal prosecutors have charged Victor Manuel Rocha, 73, of Miami, Florida, a former U.S. Department of State employee who served on the National Security Council from 1994 to 1995 and ultimately as U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia from 2000 to 2002, with committing multiple federal crimes by secretly acting for decades as an agent of the government of the Republic of Cuba.

Israel has assembled a large system of pumps that may be used to flood tunnels used by militant group Hamas under the Gaza strip in a bid to drive out fighters, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing U.S. officials.

Oxford University Press has named “rizz″ as its word of the year to highlight the popularity of a term used by Generation Z to describe someone’s ability to attract or seduce another person.

A WIRED investigation into internet censorship in US schools found widespread use of filters to censor health, identity, and other crucial information. Students say it makes the web entirely unusable.

People stood in the cold and rain outside Downing Street and heard Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby say “there is no good ever in the death of an innocent Israeli, there is no good ever in the death of an innocent Palestinian”.

The poll of 1,538 people, commissioned by Hope Not Hate and Together For Humanity, also found that 50% of people said they felt the conflict has worsened community cohesion in the UK.

A total of 51% of people agreed that the war is increasing anti-Muslim hatred in the UK, 56% agreed the conflict is increasing anti-Jewish hatred. Just 11% and 9% respectively disagreed.

Louisiana’s off-the-grid schools are a rapidly growing example of the nation’s continuing fallout from COVID: families disengaging from public school.

Republican county supervisors Tom Crosby and Peggy Judd initially refused to certify their county’s election results...

A man from our Well-Regulated Militia shot his girlfriend’s 9-year-old daughter

Sports Illustrated is the latest media company damaged by an AI experiment gone wrong

Nathan Woodyard was suspended for two years until jury found him not guilty of manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide

The Intercept has learned of around half a dozen events coordinated with Israeli officials during recent weeks — some of them hastily organized.

The 17-day long wait for the 41 workers trapped in the Silkyara tunnel of Uttarakhand finally ended on Tuesday.